Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 09:07:17 06/14/04
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On June 14, 2004 at 12:00:49, Ingo Althofer wrote: >On June 14, 2004 at 11:39:05, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >>On June 14, 2004 at 09:20:35, Ingo Althofer wrote: >>> ... >>>***************************************** >>>*** Palestine Chess Programmers Price *** >>>***************************************** > >>>To motivate Palestine programmers, I set >>>up a price (with three levels): >> >>Why is this important? Who cares if there is a palestinian chess engine or not. > >It is perhaps not important, but my idea is that people >who compete in an intellectual affair like computer chess >will probably less likely bomb "the other side". >(Unfortunately, "CTF" does not have an archive. > Otherwise you might have aa easy look at the constructive > discussion from early April 2004.) > >Barrenboim did something similar in classical music >with his mixed arab-israeli-german youth orchestras. > > >>>(1) 1,000 Euro for the first Palestine chess >>>programmer whose baby gets more than 2,200 >>>rating points (equivalent to SSDF scaling). >> >>I think that is not too hard. I suspect many "strong amateurs" such as >>PostModernist, Arasan, Amateur, The Baron, etc would meet that requirement. > >But, they are not Palestine programmers. > > >>>(2) 1,000 Euro for the first Palestine chess >>>programmer whose baby beats an Israeli program >>>in an ICGA world championship. >> >>As long as Uri competes this should be easy (probably easier than #1) ... > >Do not underestimate him. > >>>(3) 1,000 Euro for the first Palestine chess >>>programmer whose baby gets 50+ percent of the >>>points in an ICGA world championship. >> >>That is a 4 year project at least. > >Maybe. Programmers have time until 2011. 2007
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